John F. Dean (born 1946 in Washington D.C.) is a former special

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of the

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. He was appointed to be a Special Trial Judge on August 7, 1994. Dean has the distinction of being the first African-American judicial officer appointed to the court. Dean graduated from

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with a B.S. in 1970. He attended Columbus School of Law at the

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, earning his J.D. in 1975, followed by a

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in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1985. He was employed by the Office of Chief Counsel for the

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, Dallas District Counsel, 1975–1978; Baltimore District Counsel, 1978–1986; Office of Associate Chief Counsel, International, 1986–1994. Adjunct Professor of Law, Howard University, 1999 to present; Vice Chair, Judicial Counsel of the Washington Bar Association, 2002–2003. Dean was appointed as a Special Trial Judge, United States Tax Court, on August 7, 1994, and retired in July 2014.

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